Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-01

1TaQG WIS LUluuliuS LO-uhy. Eggs are
very firm and have an upward tendency
Cotton is irmer. Coffee has an upward
tendency.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's re-
pert moderate decrease ia the total vol
ume of general merchandise moving.
| This is regarded as sessonable, yet the dis
I tri1ution from first end second hands at
| Caicago, st. Louis, Kansas City and else
where exceeds that st Ike periods in pre-
cedng years. Leading retail lines have
| been very active, owing to the stimulus OF
the holiday season. Merchants look
ahead to an improvement in the whole
sale demand alter the middle OF January,
Money is generally easier than one week
ago, except at Boston where rates are a.
. per cent. higher; at Chicago, where
some dealers in staple goods have ben
seeking accommodation to meet pay
men due on purchases; at Milwaukee
and ut Kansas City, where reques for
funds from interior banks continue to be
received.
The falling Off in the general trade and
speculative movements during the week
is shown in the bank clearipgs from thir-
ty-two cities specially wired to Brad
streets. The decline in the aggregate
for the week is 1858, 900, 600. but against
| the like werk 1855, the fetal shows 6
gain of S207 554 900. New York's clear.
ings fell away 1922 ,600,0 900 tais week as
compared with last, the greater portion
being due TO decrease in speculation
Boston's declined Sc 500 900, Chiraso's
$500 600, San Fr,"cisco's S2,S00,000,
Bsltimore's 81 100000, Pniladelphig' s
500 900 aLj Louisville's 81 10000
The New I rk stock market furnishes
a very small volume of business, owing
to the holiday season. The liquidation
eccasioned by the recent decline is sub
stantialiy completed, and the news of the
week tended to give a somewhat stronger
tone to the little activity shown. Trans.
actions 10 the'New York Stock exchange
were ,709, 40l shares, against 1876, l55
shares last week, l,595,00S shares
the same week last year, and ,075,
92l shares III 1884. Bonds were dull
and generally firm. Sales on the New
York Sock exchange $685., 100, against
59,5 800 last week. NJ ney is muc1
easier. Call loans are S@6 per cent
time, SOC per cent, and commercial
paper is dull at per cent. Exchange is
low, but SHOWS signs Of recoy ~
Sterling has, however, been below the
gold point, aud large amount Of gold is
IN transit from ABROAD. American Sc,
curiues are still bought moderately fol
foreign account.
The iron and steel markets continue tc
lead in favoring conditions. No. east
ern pig IRON has advanced another 81
during the week. and S2l has been re-
fused for 500 tons, Two months delivery
The tendency of prices continues upward
and Still. higher quotations are confidently
expected. But little business is doing a
the higher price named. The Wes'
leads the East in the advance OF prices
and IN the demand for pig iron. Ii
IS very significant, as report
ed to Bradstreet's, that inquiries
from Chicago, Milwaukee and elsewhere,
have been received within the week fol-
1 Eastern pig iron, tor the first time in ten
fyears. Special returns from Southern
furnaces point to l40, 900 tons OF pig iron
having been shipped by them to " ddle
and New England states this year, against
100 600 tons each in 1885 and 1854. a net
increase of Scotch pig stocks (abroad) OF
l32, 200 tons is cabIed, and an advance Of
an average of IS per ton IN price.
Dry goods in all lines are quiet at the
East. The cotton mills are ell busy
land making money" with stocks not &C,
! hags advanced. Contracts for heavy
+ weight wooden are reported to have been
made at last years prices. st cks Ui
I 20 hnt n M
of those held year ago. Wool is dull
There is greater confidence among hold,
I assat the interior than on the seaboard
r The coffee market is steady, with ordi
nary &c. below last week. Purchases are
light at the interior. At Rio they ara
very light. ana the quantity ahoat by
steam was never so small. There is little
disposition to buy sugar. London il
called Ut lis, unchanged; no new bust
ness is looked for there until January
Fair refining here is off &c. and cenirl
tugal e.: on the week. BresdstUff,
stiffened somewhat and advanced during
the lat err part of the week, after q de
cline, on decreasing receipts at the Yves
and increasing confidence in the theorl
j that the united kingdom will have to bu.
ilnore freely later in the cereal year, o~ius
to deficit Mt supplies from India and small
stocks at ho&e.
The total number of failures in th,
United States reported to Bradstreet't
this week is 3l2 against 292 last week
1873 in Christmas week 1885, 27S in lSS:
and go in 1888. Canada has had 10
against 81 asst week and % in 1885. The
total for the United states this year tt
date'is 10 2l3 against l0,SS4 in 1885 q de
cline of CID, 10 95s in 1884 "a decline o
745), and as compared with 1881 in 1888
T. Bradstreet's.
BUTTER -l6a2Oc per n {; creamery goc
COlEON-Strirt low middling. tlnEed, 714c
4 sSoedf1idd ling sac.
ifS-COFEEE - Rio, fair l51ic; prime l61Sc
choice l6Gl61Ic; Laguyra l7c; Java PC
Golden Rio Ike: Pea Berry PIC.
CHEESE-The better grades and Ohio factor.
l00lO1sc; full cream twins l5c.
CARRIAGES 90 per crate.
CANNED GOODS-Prices per dozen: Pin,
apples standard, 81 SO; peaches, standard,
rs 81 A.; 3 lbs 81 90; seconds, lbs 81 ID; b
81 80; tomatoes, standard. lbs 81 90; seconds
lbs s.; lbs 81 SO; green con 81 lO6l 90
green peas ! 0al 81; gooseber-ies 81 %; rasp
& SSftss 81 So; oysters, full weight, b $685.;
= Bs 81 FOOL 90; 1t. VT. / b $: 2 ms s.; saimo,
/ Il 81 IS; lbs s.; mack rel b so1Sl 90; sar
dimes, American, Sc SO case imported $l2 300
Il 90 case; Strawberries, ms 81 s.; biacfberrie
81 Is; green cages s.; Eagle condensed mill
IS %
DRY SOODS-Prints: Albion, solid colors
s1/c. A,iap,s fancy 6Nc. p.nks 5LC: EDbei